What’s in a name?

I’m not sure of the answer, but consider this an update to a previously posted — and subsequently lost — list of my dog Bob‘s many, many nicknames. They represent my feeble attempt to capture, nominally, this Australian Shepherd‘s central characteristics of excitability, huggability, and — uh — furrability.

You may already know him as Tubby — which of course is short for Tubford Wigglesworth — due to his fondness for chillaxin’ in the bathtub come summertime. Here, in no particular order, are some other nicknames that have occurred to me, accompanied by links to the names that inspired them when applicable.